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A man who led police on a low-speed chase for more than an hour and a half around the streets of Napier has told a court he did not

The East Coast Lab has been launched to research New Zealand's least understood subduction zone, the Hikurangi Trough.

Prices for petrol in some parts of Hawke's Bay yesterday dropped to the lowest prices in the region in more than a decade.

Mystery had surrounded the whereabouts of missing 20-year-old novice sailor who has been found 16km south of Cape Runaway.

Police are examining CCTV security surveillance images from a robbed Napier dairy for the possibility at least one of the raiders

Graeme Trim got quite the shock when he saw an Armed Offenders Squad member crouched outside his bedroom window yesterday.

Tristram Clayton talks to Napier Mayoral candidate Bill Dalton about his latest campaign and the fact he is running unopposed!

Tauranga motorcyclist Rhys Middleton was killed by an overseas driver. Now his mother is campaigning for a change in the law allowing visitors to drive in NZ.

Havelock North residents no longer need to boil their water. The Hastings District Council lifted the boil notice for the town water

A year ago police officer Alana Jamieson was told she had cancer for the second time. This is her story of hope.

A neighbour said he was attacked by a man with a hammer after he and his brother intervened when they heard a woman screaming. Donovan

A teenage boy who fled from a car during a police chase has been arrested after he was found hiding in a treehouse. Westshore, Napier

A Napier business owner could do nothing but watch, as a car left the road and plunged into a building earlier this evening. Emergency

A drug dealer has been told a lengthy jail sentence is likely after police charged him with bringing more than $300,000 worth of methamphetamine

Cattle can freely walk into our rivers and defecate despite heightened water safety concerns in the wake of the gastro crisis.

Havelock North residents will soon be drinking Hastings water - which will be chlorinated for the foreseeable future. The supply

Health officials believe the gastro bug that has made thousands of Havelock North residents badly ill has peaked.

Three women armed with a weapon robbed a Napier dairy last night. The trio dressed in dark clothing entered Arkwright's Dairy on

The damage to Hawke's Bay's power network is worse than first thought.

Man on sex charges dies before trial.

Seal ends up in the back garden of a Napier home, warming himself on the deck, and then falling into the hedge.

A Napier man who killed one and seriously injured two others while driving drunk has appealed his sentence, claiming it is "excessive". Tyler

Ports of Auckland and Napier Port have announced a strategic alliance they say will help improve services for freight customers.

After three days of competition between 39 kapa haka groups, the final day of the National Secondary Schools Kapa Haka Festival will

A Flaxmere man jailed in 2012 for the manslaughter of his partner's son, Mikara Reti, has been denied parole.

The family of a Hastings man bashed to death with a taiaha are delighted his killer's appeal has been kicked out. The Court of Appeal

Instra Corp founder and Super Black Racing team owner Tony Lentino has died aged 42, after a battle with cancer. His father migrated

An olive ridley turtle that washed up on a Hawke's Bay beach last week has died at Auckland Zoo.